The sentence

English translation: GE is innovative

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primary concern

Explanation:I'd understand this as: "Our company has always been concerned about the future". That could mean something like "making a better future for everybody", but also "creating a solid financial basis for its own future" or "being innovative". The good thing about the "has always been about" formulation is that it does not precicely say WHICH relation the company has to the future, only that it is a strong one.

Explanation:GE, General Electric, is a HUGE US company involved in the production of everything from lightbulbs to high technology especially related to the energy, telecommunications, and defense sectors.

Any company wants to look out for its own bottom line, its financial future, but I think here "future" is meant in an optimistic science fiction sense where technology is supposed to solve many many problems and lead to a bright clean energetic times ahead.

The trick is, this text could be used both in ads about, say, investing in the company and in general to create a positive association with the company name.

Explanation:This sentence is somewhat of a paradox. The use of the present perfect (has been) represents continuous action that began in the past and is still continuing in the present. However, they discuss the future.

What they are saying is that since they first began (we know that this is since they first began because of the word "always"), GE has been concerned about what WILL BE. Back when they began, they were thinking about what WAS GOING TO BE the case; not what WAS the case, and not what HAD BEEN the case. Then, the same attitude continued, and even now in the present, they focus on what WILL BE. They don't focus on what IS or what WAS. They never have; only on what WILL BE in the future.

The use of "has been" indicates that this attitude is a continuous thing, that since the beginning through present day, they have always had this focus on the future, and it is implied that this attitude will continue for a while, if not forever, into the future itself.

On a more basic level, GE is trying to tell us that they put the past behind them and design their products to be useful in the time when they will be used, which is the future, because there is some time that elapses between the design phase of a product, and the marketing phase of a product.